BSD daemon

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The BSD demon

The BSD daemon is the mascot of BSD - Unix . It is represented by a small, red devil or demon with two horns . His body and gaze are directed to the left and he has a slight smile on his face. The end of its tail ends with a triangular point. He has a golden trident in his hands and sneakers on his feet.

The first drawings of the BSD mascot were made by John Lasseter . The FreeBSD version is from Tatsumi Hosokawa. Marshall Kirk McKusick has owned the copyright to the drawing since 1988 and only grants the right of the illustration to products that are directly related to BSD.

Although the rights holder declares the mascot nameless, it is often called the Beastie in the internet community , which sounds like the quick pronunciation of the letters BSD . More rarely, he's also called Chuck , which may be due to the All-Star shoes he wears.

On the meaning of the figure and the fork

In Unix operating systems, a daemon (not the same as a homophonic daemon ) is a process that runs in the background and performs various tasks without the user having to intervene. The operating system call, with a new process can be generated, i.e. fork (engl for. Fork ); hence the fork that the figure is holding in its hands. The figure thus includes symbols that were derived from the technology of Unix operating systems. This is where the BSD daemon differs from the Linux penguin Tux , which lacks this metaphor.

In some parts of the world, believers associate the operating system with the devil because of the mascot or logo . It always takes time for the FreeBSD community to teach those affected otherwise. Occasionally this does not work.

ASCII art

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The BSD daemon as ASCII art can be found on FreeBSD .

Merchandising products

The first plush daemons appeared in the 1990s, the Liebscher & Partner company from Freiberg , which also had the plush Tux manufactured, manufactured the original BSD daemons with McKusick's approval. The soft toys are produced in Thuringia and also exported to the United States. Since 1996 it has also been available in the XXL version and since 2006 as a custom-made product in even larger dimensions.

There are also stickers to stick on, T-shirts on which the mascot can be seen, pillows that are printed with the ASCII variant of the mascot, horns to put on the head, full body costumes and much more. At some fairs, you can find actors in beastie costumes or women in red clothes with their horns attached. The latter are also known as daemonettes or BSD chicks .

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the FreeBSD project, a mascot-shaped cake was prepared.

Web links

Commons : BSD  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The BSD Daemon. Retrieved March 26, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo. Retrieved on March 26, 2014 (English): "[...] the guest was convinced that either we or the hotel management" worshiped the Devil "and refused to stay at the hotel unless the logo was removed [...]"
  3. ↑ https://fbcdn-sphotos-ba.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1.0-9/1488745_10152198925416508_347182792_n.jpg ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Photo evidence
  4. ↑ [1] [2] Image evidence
  5. ↑ https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/578059_10151980878191508_615578451_n.jpg ( Memento from March 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Image evidence